Closing 3d applications causes Panic

Metraxis · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 16

I've not been able to track this down exactly yet, but a good percentage of the time, when a GL application closes, I get a hard lockup/kernel panic (flashing kb lights and all). Needless to say, this is discontering.

Recent changes:
Switched from xfree86 to Xorg-x11
Edited XF86Config to re-enable 3d support, which had somehow gotten lost in the translation
(specifically, I commented out the dri line as per the Xorg/Nvidia instructions)

I am running a genkerneled 2.4.26 with the 6111 version of the Nvidia drivers.

This may be related, but the Nvidia-kernel package doesn't seem to want to record itself properly in "world"

In short, heeeelp!

morrian · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 21

I'm having the same problem, although I'm still using XFree86. It seems to me that it is only SDL applications, but I may be wrong on that. (Most of the games I have on my gentoo box are built on SDL.) I'm thinking it is something to do with the kernel and nvidia driver. While we're using the same kernel version, I'm currently using 1.0.5336. I've tried other versions (but not 6111 yet). I also tracked something down where it mentioned USB can cause this, but disabling USB in both the kernel and the BIOS made no difference.

Hopefully something here will point to what is going on. So far the only commonality we really have is the kernel version. 2.4.27 (even though it is masked) is looking more and more desirable...

morrian · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 21

I tried 2.4.27 kernel with 6111 nvidia drivers, but no luck. I read that there may be problems with 2.4.x kernels and agp 8x, so I may just give 2.6.x a whirl now. (I really wanted to try using agpgart instead of nvidia's agp driver, but agpgart said "unable to determine aperture size." This is supposedly because 8x agp uses 16 bit registers which the 2.4.x agpgart module can't read.)

Hmm... I'd better read up a little more before moving to 2.6. I don't want to completely hose my system!

morrian · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 21

Ok, I don't usually like talking to myself... :roll:

Anyway, I switched to vanilla-sources-2.4.27 and I haven't had the lockup yet. It usually happens by now, so I'm feeling quite positive about this.

I don't know if it was the bootsplash stuff that was messing things up... That is one more thing I was using. Could it have been putting the card in a weird state? Well, no more bootsplash with vanilla-sources.

Maybe I will try 2.6 at some point, but for now this is working (for the most part; I still get a lot of seg faults with that whole SDL parachute deployed stuff...... I've yet to figure that one out. I'm just glad I'm not locking up for the time being.)